Did Morgan Freeman In Fact Have A Sexual Relationship With Step-Grand Daughter?

This story first came out about the Oscar winner Morgan Freeman was back in 2009 in the Huffington Post. Now let me try to explain how this crazy rumor got started and the family connection. Morgan Freeman was going through a high profiled divorce with his then estranged wife of 25 years, costume designer Myrna Colley-Lee, when a family member decided to talk to the tabloids about what was happening behind closed doors.

At first The National Enquirer alleges that the 72-year-old actor has been romantically involved with his 27-year-old step-granddaughter, E’Dena Hines, for as long as a decade.

E’Dena is the granddaughter of Jeanette Adair Bradshaw, Morgan’s first wife, but she was raised by Morgan and Myrna since she was a small child. Morgan adopted E’Dena’s mother, Deena, who is Jeanette’s biological daughter.

(Essence) The suspected murderer of Morgan Freeman’s step-granddaughter is alleging that the victim was involved in an inappropriate sexual relationship with the legendary actor, according to his lawyer. Lamar Davenport has been accused of stabbing E’Dena Hines 25 times outside her Manhattan building in 2015. He is currently on trial for second-degree murder.

His lawyer is now claiming that Hines admitted to Davenport that she had secretly been sleeping with her step-grandfather for years, apparently confirming years-old rumors that the two had been intimate, according to the New York Daily News.

She also complained about having “grandpa feelings” in the last few months of her life, according to text messages revealed at the trial. It is not clear why Davenport’s claim is being introduced in the trial. The National Enquirer first published rumors of the alleged affair in 2009, with some gossip sites reporting that the relationship was serious enough for the two to consider marriage.

Though they are not related by blood, Freeman has known Hines, who was 33-years-old when she was killed, since she was a child. Freeman had adopted Hines’ biological mother, Deena Adair, during his first marriage to Jeanette Adair-Bradshaw. He helped raise Hines with his second wife, Myrna Colley-Lee.

Both Hines and Freeman, now 80, publicly denied any affair when the rumors first surfaced.

“The recent reports of any pending marriage or romantic relationship of me to anyone are defamatory fabrications from the tabloid media designed to sell papers,” Freeman said in a 2012 statement.